Friday, January 21, 2011

I'm a little torn. Reining In has sat at 13 reviews for a long time now. Of course I want more reviews than that. But I'm wondering if the old adage "careful what you wish for" rings true here. To start with, 13 is my lucky number. Really, it is. My wedding band has 13 stones. My name has 13 letters in it. My office is on 13th street. All but one of my children were born at 13 after the hour. It's a good number. I like it. But do I really want to be stuck at 13 reviews for the rest of my life?On the other hand, they are all really great reviews. And the next one could be that one bad one that I've been waiting for. I do worry about it. I often wonder if all those people who bought it and read it hated it so much they couldn't even bother to put a review up. Or if people who actually review the books they read are really that rare? I watched a video put together by R.J. Keller and Kristen Tsetsi. (Paper Rats Studios - These gals rock!!) At the time, I laughed. Funny stuff. That's great. Later I realized, Damn, it's true. We do that! Why do we do that? Hell, I don't know. What I do know is that I have to force myself to stay away from Amazon for more than a day at a time. Otherwise, I'd be checking DTP and the review count every 5 minutes. Seriously. I'm obsessessed some days. Do you realize how much writing I could get done if I put together all the time I wasted on Amazon? Pretty sure I'd have more than 2 books by now. So next time you hear me complain about reviews, or sales, or anything else that requires me to get on Amazon to check on it, please just tell me to shut up and go write something! Thanks!

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Dawn is the author of Reining In and Phantom Rising. She runs the Breakout Book Club on Facebook and also reviews Indie books on the Breakout Books Review Board.
Dawn was born and raised in South Dakota, but now lives with her three daughters in Kansas. She enjoys all things creative; writing, drawing and photography are her favorites.

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Some of you might be wondering why I moved my site over to Blogger. There are a few reasons. I moved it over to facebook for a while, for much the same reasons, but the facebook page was still lacking in a few areas.I wanted the site to be interactive; something I didn't have with the original site. Cool as it was, there was no way for anyone to talk to me or to the other readers.I loved how much interaction there was on the Reining In fan page over there, and thought I would give it a shot for the main website. It was ok, but there are things you can't do on facebook, like little side blurbs like this one, for instance; extra pages for things like book information and things like that. It was limited. So after playing with Blogger for a while, I realized that it had what all the other sites were lacking.So here we are. It's not some fancy, professional looking site. Instead, it is a user friendly site, for both me and everyone who visits it. Oh, and did I mention, everything I post here gets copied to the facebook page? So fans over there still get to see everything.